Smell the coffee

Here we’re again with a new story for you! 8 weeks have already past and it’s unbelievable how time goes by so fast. Time flies!

The first weeks were the hardest ones for sure: new places, new people, a new place to work... Our first week of working in MOJU was hard. Although the people were (are ) very friendly and they wanted to communicate, to know who we are. We couldn’t communicate with all of them,  just with those who can speak English. But little by little we can easily say that we’re improving. More and more we’re learning the skills how to communicate non verbal. We’re learning portuguese words and now we can construct short sentences. For sure, this makes us feel more comfortable.

A short overview of a normal week day:

At 8.45 our alarm clock goes off. Most of the time Ginvile wakes up first and then I followJ. After this hard part of the day, we take breakfast together, we clean, we prepare and around 9.50 we go to MOJU. Sometimes we’re to early, so than we go to a place, next to MOJU, where we can drink a coffee (‘café com leite’). After that we start with preparing English lessons for the children or we have Portuguese lessons ourselves. After, we go around 13.00 to the apartment to prepare our lunch. We have a break till 15.00, so there’s also time left for a little nap sometimesJ. At 15.00 we go back to MOJU and we work till 19.00 or 20.00 with the children. When we finish our work, we hurry to the gym for Body Combat, Zumba, GAP… and after an intensive hour of sporting we make dinner together. Some evenings we have to go shopping and others we go for a drink, we go out or we just chill in our apartment in front of the TV. So you can easily say that we’re living a peaceful life, but we don’t complainJ